alt Hacker NewsI find that the kind of people who obsess the conspiracy of "alternative facts" are the same people who uncritically take everything presented by modern science as truth. Except when it comes to economics of course!
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perching_aix • today at 5:39 PM
Do you picture millions reading science journals, or are you willfully conflating media reporting as what's "presented by modern science as truth"?
In my impression people peddling distrust in modern science are not exactly in it to improve its honesty, nor are they calling out genuine gaps most of the time. It's more a side effect if and when it happens at all, with the actual goal being political control play instead.
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People who question modern science don't have a higher epistemic standard.
They just offer something worse, like a youtuber who convinced them that eating plants was bad for them.